[linux-help] Re: Samba w/o password?

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxx>]

One additional thing I would be concerned about....

You said this would be the gateway machine connecting your internal
network to the DSL modem.
        I would NEVER put samba on a machine attached to the internet unless I
intended to do a lot of configuration to make it secure, and that would
probably include the authentication you said you would like to avoid.
        I know you can set up samba to limit the IPs that are allowed to
connect, and you can even set up filtering rules on the
firewall/masq/gateway machine to ensure the only allowed samba
connections came from the internal network. I would also do a lot of
testing before I considered connecting it to the internet when samba was
running.  Public shares on samba are just that ---- PUBLIC.

        Also, have you considered that the "freezing" might be due to the
system having already been hacked?

Jeff

my $.02 worth from one who has experienced the need to reinstall because
a "secure" firewall system wasn't.

Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> Yes, it can be done.  However... based on my own experienc using Samba, I
> would plan for at least a several day transition period... so tell your wife
> or whoever else that the file server and/or Internet may be inaccessable for
> a while.  (Getting IP Masq to work is easy... Samba can be
> tricky--espeically if you have several versions of Windows on your network).
> 
> The password issue has been "fixed" in recent versions of Samba, so you
> should no longer have to patch Windows to work with Samba.  And you can
> create 'public' shares w/ Samba just as you do in Windows, thus avoiding the
> need for passwords to access the files.
> 
> -- Jonathan
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:45:51AM -0500, David Carmichael wrote:
> >
> > OK is there any way to set up a PC using IP/Masking/Routing where the drives
> > [two harddrives, one CD-ROM, one DVD-ROM] can be shared/mapped to
> > Windows'9x/XP machines with out the need of 'patching' each of the windows
> > machines, forcing them to logon every time they reboot???
> >
> > Here is the deal... I have a P-233MX based socket-7 system.. all the
> > hardware has Linux drivers...
> > Currently I am running Win'98SE Internet Sharing software and this system is
> > my gateway system to my DSL modem for the rest of my home network.
> >
> > Trouble is this system keeps freezing up on me for unknown reasons.... and
> > would like to try LINUX on this system...but do not want to make things
> > harder on my wife to access the drives and the internet from her Win'98
> > system.
> >
> > The last time I wanted to try to do this Samba was not working correctly
> > with Win'98 systems due to password protection.
> >
> > --David
> >
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